NOUS41 KWBC 211428
PNSWSH
Technical
Implementation Notice 12-58
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
938 AM EST Wed
Nov 21 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information
Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: James Hoke
Director Hydrometeorological
Prediction Center
Subject: Upgrade of gridded QPF data from GRIB1 to
GRIB2 from
HPC Webpage Effective February 19,
2013
Effective
February 19, 2013, the National Centers for
Environmental
Prediction’s (NCEP) Hydrometeorological Prediction
Center (HPC) will
upgrade the format of gridded QPF data from
GRIB
1 to GRIB 2. HPC
currently has links to GRIB 1 data at the
bottom of the QPF webpage:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/qpf2.shtml
Both GRIB 1 and
GRIB 2 data will be available before February 19,
2013. Effective
February 19, 2013, only the new GRIB 2 data will
be available from the Webpage. This only
affects the HPC webpage.
No changes will
be made to NOAAport at this time.
If you have
questions about this upgrade, please contact:
David Novak
NWS/NCEP Hydrometeorological Prediction
Center
College Park, MD
david.novak@noaa.gov
NWS Public
Information Statements are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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